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1 April 2005 Two New Species of Ochridacyclops () (Copepoda, Cyclopoida) from Kenya and Nepal
Ko Tomikawa, Tomiko Ito, Noboru Minakawa, Shunsuke F. Mawatari
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Abstract

Two species of cyclopoid copepods, Ochridacyclops kenyaensis sp. nov. and O. nepalensis sp. nov. are described as the first records of this genus from Kenya and Nepal, respectively. Ochridacyclops kenyaensis can easily be distinguished from its congeners by having a rounded and blunt distal end of the outer terminal seta (IV) on the caudal rami, and by the inner terminal spine being about equal in length to the outer terminal spine on the endopod of leg 4. Ochridacyclops nepalensis can easily be distinguished from other members of the genus by having two spines on exopodal segment 3 of leg 1, and by the proportions of the caudal rami, which are 3.4 times longer than wide.

Ko Tomikawa, Tomiko Ito, Noboru Minakawa, and Shunsuke F. Mawatari "Two New Species of Ochridacyclops () (Copepoda, Cyclopoida) from Kenya and Nepal," Zoological Science 22(4), 477-487, (1 April 2005). https://doi.org/10.2108/zsj.22.477
Received: 13 October 2004; Accepted: 1 February 2005; Published: 1 April 2005
KEYWORDS
Copepoda
Kenya
Nepal
Ochridacyclops
taxonomy
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